Stinz, Vol. 3 #6: A Marvelous Resistance [Comic]

Donna Barr (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1998

Thirty years after The War, the black centaur stallion Stinz Lwhard still refuses to leave the peace and contentment of his home valley. His fellow villagers, two-legged and four-legged have noticed, but it's always been his business. When an old friend and fellow veteran of The War worms his reasons out of him, it sends shock waves across Stinz's whole society.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Donna Barr's STINZ is an addictive delight, for fantasy-lovers, Teutonophiles, or anyone who treasures a well-told tale. Stinz Lwhard and his friends may be half-horses, but in Barr's capable vhands they become mirrors of those friends we all know; the ones we laugh with, fight with, get drunk with, and love. She understands Everyman, number of legs notwithstanding, the gorgeous but subtle tapestry of emotion woven into every incident, no matter how ordinary, shows her keen eye for humanity-watching, and that's a rare talent.

The adventures of Stinz will win you on several levels; with finely-crafted characterisations, luminous and insightful storytelling, and the obvious care and passion in every stroke of Barr's pen. She never misses a trick -- and you'll spend hours savouring every one of them. -- Joellyn Auklandus, Elfquest: Hidden Years, the Wild Hunt

Her tales mix farcical humor with profound gravity, hope with tragedy -- her characters are fully multi-dimensional, her centaurs certainly as human as any two-legged character in comics today, and Barr's deep-seated understanding of culture has evidently empowered her with a gift for realistic (well, as realistic as one can get when writing centaurs) but unpredictable storytelling -- Stephen D. Wenger, Word On The Shelf, 1998

Once again, I found myself caught up, compelled to read on, carried by the flow of the narrative, lost in admiration of the art, and completely unable to remember that the premise of this, like all Barrwerke is at least 50% insane. How does she do that? How come so few people seem able to do that? As someone once said, of someone else, just before they made Donna Barr, they broke the mold. -- Daniel Pinkwater, Chicago Days, Hoboken Nights.

From the Publisher

For over a decade, Donna Barr's very individual style of art and writing has cultivated an unusually loyal and intelligent worldwide audience. They await every new chapter eagerly, and are never disappointed.

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Product Details

• Comic: 48 pages
• Publisher: A Fine Line Press (June 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892253003
• ISBN-13: 978-1892253002
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,637,848 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Donna Barr is the author of the classic comics series, "The Desert Peach," following the life of the Desert Fox's fictional gay brother. She is also the author of "Stinz," about a civilized, rural centaur stallion, and "Bosom Enemies," which has been called a fable about slavery.

She is the author of such prose novels as "Permanent Party," her fictionalized memoir of life as a WAC in the early 1970's; "Bread and Swans," continuing stories of the life of The Desert Peach"; and "An Insupportable Light," the original novel that led to the "Stinz" series. It's about how wars get started when no one wants them and both sides think they're right.

All her series continue in "Afterdead," the afterlife of the Desert Peach, where all her characters meet and interact in new and amusing roles. Afterdead collections 1 and 2 are both available at Amazon.com, as are her prose novels. Robotcomics is processing all her books for use on Kindle.

Her home site is www.donnabarr.com, which leads to her webcomics and bookstores.

"Donna Barr shows herself to be one of the heralds of the forthcoming age -- doing her comicbook in such a way as to satisfy her own insight, awareness and inspiration." -- Dave Sim, Cerebus.

"That's the haken crux, (that) each character in Pfirsich Rommel's battalion is just a soldier in the field; he might be a dog-face, fed, reb, tommy, poilu -- he happens to be a kraut. These guys are not political, nor even particularly patriotic -- they're regular bewildered zchlubs, trying to survive in a situation nobody would choose.
"What we have seen so far is enough to assure us that good taste and decorum will at least be attempted, that Donna Barr will continued to show us events, through an arrangement of mirrors so elaborate that we can never know for sure at whom we are looking, never be sure at whom we are pointing when we say 'Ecce homo!'" -- Daniel Pinkwater, "Young Adult Novel"